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Workplace heating, cooling and ventilation
Planned maintenance with a record per unit, service diagnosed with instruments, air balanced after the layout changes, and a replacement plan you can put in a budget.
A schedule that starts with a survey
We do not quote a maintenance contract from a floor area. We walk the building first, list every unit with its location, access and condition, and then agree how often each one needs seeing.
Two visits a year suits most offices. Kitchens, labs and anything with a filter that loads quickly need more. The schedule says which, and why.
- Every visitCoils, filters, drains and traps, belts and bearings, electrical connections, safeties, refrigerant behaviour and control settings.
- Every reportWhat we found, what we changed, what we left alone and why, and what we expect to need doing before the next visit.
- Every yearA short written view of the whole estate — which units are near the end, which are fine, and what to budget.
What we are usually called about
- One side of the floor is wrong
Almost always airflow rather than capacity. We measure supply and return per room, check what the partitions did to the return path, and rebalance rather than turning the setpoint down for everybody.
- The comms room runs hot
A dedicated unit that was sized for a smaller rack, or a single split with no way of rejecting heat when the building's system is off overnight. We measure the load and say plainly what it needs.
- Water where it should not be
Blocked condensate, a trap that was never primed, a pan that has corroded. We clear it, then find out why it blocked, because the second time it will be over a ceiling tile.
- It runs outside the hours you pay for
Schedules left over from a previous tenant, a hand-off override nobody cancelled, or a controller whose clock has drifted. We put the schedule back to the hours the building actually uses.
- A unit is short-cycling
Starting and stopping too often shortens the life of a compressor faster than almost anything else. We find the reason rather than resetting it.
Measured, then written down
After a layout change, the air a room gets is a matter of measurement, not opinion. We record supply and extract per room, set dampers to reach the design figures where they exist, and write down what we ended up with.
Where there are no design figures — which is common in a building that has been re-let three times — we say what the rooms are getting now and what looks defensible for the use they are being put to.
What we look after on the Eastside
- Offices and professional suites
Multi-tenant floors, VRF and packaged systems, meeting rooms that were never in the original zoning.
- Clinics and consulting rooms
Rooms that need their own temperature and their own ventilation, on schedules that match the clinic day.
- Labs and light industrial
Process heat, extract, make-up air and the pressure relationships between a clean space and everything around it.
- Retail and trade counters
Doors open to the weather on equipment sized for a sealed building.
- Comms and server rooms
Dedicated cooling, monitoring, and a plan for what happens when the building's main system is off.